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Dreaming of the perfect place for your child? Light Way is a
non-profit organization founding a school in Houston to meet the
needs of
today's innovative, individualistic and amazing children
many of whom are being diagnosed
with ADD and ADHD and/or opting out of the current education
system by dropping out completely or by electing to home school.
Our Vision
The vision of Light
Way Schools is to co-create a world-wide network of
consciousness based learning
environments that fully support our children in re-membering the
unlimited potential of their spirit within a self-sustaining
community built on trust, joy, harmony, love and peace.
We are
the change we wish to see in the world.
Our Mission
The
mission of Light Way Schools is to re-create the education
system. We intend an environment of open, joyous exploration of
the inner and outer worlds through a curriculum designed to
honor and empower student choice. Discovery of self is
encouraged by a team of adult co-creators who lead by embodying
the principles of the journey to self-realization.
Why Light
Way?
In the past 25 years
the rate of suicide for those between 15 and 24 has tripled. In
Houston alone that means over 1200 suicides a year.
At Light Way Schools
we asked why and what we could do about it.
The answer was that
they are just giving up. You see the kids of today are NOT like
previous generations. They are a new evolution in humanity's
consciousness. They come equipped with very high energy and a
great sense of purpose often a deep desire to re-invent their
world. They come with new ideas and knowledge beyond their
years. Many are showing us that children can make a huge
difference. Take Ryan from
www.Ryanswell.org. At six years old he
said to his mother that he wanted to help get drinking water to
people in Africa. Now he is barely a teenager and has a
foundation that has provided 227 wells in 10 countries serving
375,167 people!
Truly at Light Way
Schools we believe that "children are not less valuable, less
important, nor less worthy of respect than adults. They
are merely less experienced." Our
academic program facilitates
their gaining life enriching experience.
 It's
time for us to listen and guide them. But instead they are being
labeled troublemakers and worse ADD/ADHD. Then many are
given medication to help them sit still for 1 1/2 - 2 hours at a time.
Apart from the fact
that the long term effects of these medications are largely unknown,
in the short term, parents report not knowing their children.
The change in personality can be that radical.
The stories and experiences of these kids
can be readily found on the Internet. Many report moving to
other even more harmful drugs as a result of this early
training...which training you may ask...the type of training
that says "Got a problem? Pop a pill."
The ADD/ADHD child
may not need to be medicated. It is highly likely that he/she needs more physical
exercise, practice in meditation to calm and focus the mind and
healthful chemical free food.
The board of Light
Way schools is committed to creating a
self-sustaining
educational environment going beyond the norm. At Light
Way we see these children as gifts not burdens. They are not
"My problem child..." "My bad kid..." as many schoolteachers
refer to them. Yet we should bear no ill will towards these
teachers. They are merely the product of the system that created
them - as are the children with guns shooting each other. Our kids are
hurt and angry and when they aren't releasing these emotions
through outward violence - they implode. Hence triple the
suicide rate among 15-25 year olds.
The time to act is
NOW.
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Light
Way Schools 
